2.Jan.05 :: phantom

The New Yorker reviews "the Phantom of the Opera

I love it when a reviewer just really hates a film and gets really catty about it.

What does it take to shake a movie fan? Whether we are critics or bug-eyed buffs, so many of our evenings are spent in the company of crimes and misdemeanors that we can hardly be blamed for developing the hide of a pachyderm. Just occasionally, something slips through—a thin shudder of monstrosity, enough to remind us of what it means to be afraid. And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: “Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.”

It only gets better from there.

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Comments

Thank you - that was awesome. My coworkers are now all very curious as to what I'm giggling like a schoolgirl over :)

Brandon TUrok :: :: 3.Jan.05 10:45 AM

the reviewer is Anthony Lane, and he has compiled about 250 such reviews in "nobody's perfect". it's hilarious reading.

richard :: :: 6.Jan.05 8:25 PM

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